(Above: Darren K. Woods in all his screen-shot glory, where he made an appearance on "Good Morning Texas" a couple months ago to talk about Cenerentola with Isabel Leonard.)
General Director of Fort Worth Opera, Darren K. Woods, is featured in the July 2009 edition of Opera News. The native Texan moved into the role in 2001, and has magically kept (and is keeping) FWO immune & afloat in the scary financial crisis.
We could list all the initiatives that he's poured into the FWO & their singers, but we give him the most props for taking risks on new music, at times diametrically adverse to the Texas palate: Angels in America in 2008, Dead Man Walking in 2009, and the highly-anticipated Before Night Falls in 2010.